Time to do it.  Putting things in perspective is never an easy task…I think I need to sound off a bit.  Since no one really reads this, I think it’s a perfect place to do so.

Okay. I have these ideas for photographs. I’ve had them for about two years now. I can’t get them out of my head. It’s a series, I can tell you that much, about 12 images, and deals mostly with the idea of being human. Feelings and dreams, mostly. The shots are moody. The shots are probably not unique, but they stand out in my head as something that would be a good start to a possible career. Some of them are going to be rather difficult to set up. Others are relatively easy.

I’m getting antsy. I want to shoot them.

I really do have ideas endlessly floating around in my head. They don’t stop. It’s a spark to creativity, but a hindrance to sleeping at night.

With my baby being so young, it’s just hard to find the time to set things up and shoot. I’m trying to stay positive about what I’m wanting to do. Being patient and such is sometimes hard. A lot of other things have to come first, and at the end of the day there is little time for anything I really want to do.

Making time doesn’t really work so well either. I’m trying, though. Once I get the camera I’m using for these shots I’m setting aside some time on the weekends to shoot. I’ve found a prospective model, but it may fall through. I’ll have to look again. I need to post ads.

I could be shooting while I’m writing this, but I’m tired. After Midnight on a weekday. Just got the baby to sleep. Going to do the sleep thing myself. Or try. I think I may try some of these shots with my 35mm camera, even though it won’t really work the same way. Some will work without a model, or with just me. Setting up the camera, though, will be tricky. Self timer isn’t really working that well.

I’m literally struggling to get out the door with the camera due to my boyfriend working so much overtime and staying at home with the baby.  I could’ve taken her out on a walk Wednesday, but I was so down in the dumps about NOTHING that I didn’t want to get my ass out of the house.  She also has a cold, which is more annoying than anything else.  She hates the little brain sucker thing.  She’s sleeping in her car seat as I’m typing this.  Seems happy to have her blankie back out of the wash.

In news relating to photography, I planned to go out today when we wake up.  May be a problem, though, due to the fact that, according to weather.com, it’s supposed to be stormy here.  Not really wanting to take her out in a thunderstorm.  So…Friday or Saturday, perhaps.  Sunday at the very latest.  Hopping a fence to a small cemetery outside of town.  I’m told there’s some old tombstones there that would make nice B&W prints.  I’m also wanting to try a shot of the very curvy road that you drive between Webster City and Stratford.  I’ll need at least two, methinks.

I promised I’d get a page up here.  So…what better way to do that quickly than to throw Wordpress up and do things that way for a while!

So here I am again.

Allow me to tell you a bit about what is going to happen here.  This blog (and the rest of the site, once I get finished) is about film photography.  Yes, film.  Stop laughing.

I shoot film. Exclusively. The only digital camera I own is on my phone, and that thing sucks more than Paris Hilton.  There’s going to be a lot in here about shooting film in an area without a large camera shop at hand, street photography in a small Iowa town, and large format on a (very, very small) budget.  If you’re lucky (and I find a scanner that can scan medium format negatives) you may even see PICTURES

I shoot with various things: 4 Lex35 (and clone) plastic cameras, a leaky Argus C3, a one speed Argus C3, a Kiev 4a, a Canonet 28, A Yashica MG-1 (with no meter and one shutter speed due to battery sourcing problems), an Agfa folder, and (soon) a Crown Graphic monstrosity that will finally move me solidly into the large format arena.  At the moment I shoot the Kiev the most because it has my prize possession on it: a Zeiss Opton-Sonnar 50mm f/1.5 lens.  The thing is remarkable for something that has to be nearing 55 years old.  It’s my street cam, and you’ll probably see a lot from it.

Good enough for introductions methinks. Hopefully, anyway.